TROY, N.Y. – Four different Crimson found the back of the net, including a first-year and two sophomores, as No. 7/7 Harvard (20-7-1, 15-5-1) began its final regular season road trip with a 4-1 victory at Rensselaer (9-22-0, 5-16-0) on Friday night at Houston Field House.  
 
The win, coupled with Yale's simultaneous loss to Quinnipiac, vaults Harvard back into first place in the ECAC Hockey regular season standings with just one game remaining. The Crimson will have a chance to clinch its eighth ECAC Hockey regular season title with a win tomorrow at Union. 
 
Senior Becca Gilmore joined sophomores Shannon Hollands and Courtney Hyland, along with first-year forward Taze Thompson, as Crimson goal scorers. Lindsay Reed made 18 saves and moved to 5-4-0 in net.  
 
After missing the team's last three games, Hollands made an immediate impact in her return to the ice, scoring the game's first goal 6:07 in. The score came off a two-on-one rush as Hollands elected to keep the puck and beat Engineers' goalie Amanda Rampado near-post with a perfectly placed wrister. Later in the opening period, Gilmore picked up a goal just 21 seconds into Harvard's first power-play of the night, rifling a shot off the post and in. 
 
Harvard added two more goals in the game's second frame. First it was sophomore Courtney Hyland, the beneficiary of a shot from Taze Thompson which slipped through Rampado's pads before Hyland tapped the puck across the goal line to increase the lead to three. Thompson would then get a goal of her own with less than two minutes left in the period and Harvard on the power-play. The first-year was able to get her stick on a point-shot from Della Rovere, deflecting the puck five-hole for her eighth goal of the season. 
 
Rensselaer got one goal back in the final period when Asiah Taylor-Walters notched her second of the season to cut the Harvard lead to 4-1. Taylor-Walters goal would be the final tally of the night, however, as the Crimson was able to close out a comfortable victory. 

Harvard Highlights

• Becca Gilmore scored her 18th goal of the season to extend her career-best point streak to 10 games. Gilmore is the second Harvard player with a point streak of at least 10 games this season. Kristin Della Rovere had points in 12-straight earlier this year. 
• Sophomore Courtney Hyland scored her first goal of the season and the second of her collegiate career. 
• Kyra Willoughby set a new career-high in both points and assists with three helpers in the game.  She is the first defender to have three assists in a single game this year for Harvard. 
• Shannon Hollands scored a goal in her return from a three-game absence. Hollands now has four goals this year. 
• First-year Taze Thompson contributed a goal and an assist in what was the fourth multi-point performance of her young collegiate career. 
• Lindsay Reed made 18 saves in goal, moving to 5-4-0 on the season. 
• Anne Bloomer had a game-high five shots on net. 
• Kristin Della Rovere went 12-6 at the faceoff dot while also registering two assists. 
• Gabi Davidson Adams had the primary assist on Harvard's first goal, the second helper of her collegiate career. 

 Game Notes

• The win is number 20 on the year for the Crimson, giving the program its first 20-win season since 2014-15. 
• Harvard sweeps the season series with Rensselaer and improves to 20-8-2 all-time against the Engineers. The Crimson has defeated RPI in eight consecutive meetings. 
• Harvard outshot Rensselaer, 37-19 for the game. 
• The Crimson went 2-3 on the power-play for the night. Rensselaer entered the contest with the top penalty-kill in ECAC Hockey at 91.3 percent. 
• Harvard won 27 draws compared to 20 for RPI. 
• Harvard's penalty kill went three-for-three on the day. 

Up Next

The Crimson makes the short trip to Union where it will square off against the Dutchwomen tomorrow (Feb. 20) with a chance to secure the first ECAC Hockey regular season title since 2015. First faceoff is set for 3 p.m. on ESPN+ and Stretch Internet.